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A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he…

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What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano…

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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

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The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify…

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I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in…

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The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"…

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“My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.”

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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,…

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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

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